TIRUCHY: A man was murdered after a verbal quarrel under the influence of alcohol turned to an assault in Kumbakonam on Thursday.

It is said that A Abishek (19), a resident of Asoor in Thanjavur, was in love with a 17-year-old girl from the locality.

On November 11, Abishek took the girl with the promise of marriage and visited several places in and around Kumbakonam. As it was late, Abishek and the girl went to the house of his friend R Balaji (25) and stayed there for the night.

Meanwhile, the girl’s parents were searching for her and later found that she was in the house of Balaji, and they went there and took her back to their house.

Against such a backdrop, Abishek, who suspected that Balaji might have informed the girl’s parents of her whereabouts, wanted to teach him a lesson.

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